[Rin stared at Len's hand grabbing her wrist, and grabbed his hand with her other hand.]
...Stop grabbin' me when I'm like this, you damn idiot...
[She growled, pulling his hand off hers almost effortlessly.]
- I would have knocked you into the walls or worse if you were anybody else, you damned dummy!
[And then, she rubbed at her eyes, willing the tears to go away. Rillanne d'Aurich wouldn't have cried, just because some girl she'd known had - gone Witch, and then gone away...]
[But then - She wasn't really the Princess of Evil anymore, was she now?]
[Len, in the meanwhile, was almost seething.]
- You - You - What the hell are you, anyway? Are you even my sister at all!?!?
[Rin stared at him, then - And then, a memory rose to the top of her mind, unbidden.]
[A young Allen when they were young members of the Royalty together. And then, a older Allen, when he'd first been introduced to her as her Royal Servant. And a long time after that - ]
[Allen was on one knee in front of her, telling her that he'd gotten rid of the Green Kingdom's Princess Michelle, and that everything would be all right now...]
[- Except that that had been a big fat lie. Things had gone from bad to worse after that, and she'd lost everything, even Allen.]
[...Allen's eyes had been sort of dead after he'd killed the Green Princess, Rin realized now. Why hadn't Rillanne realized that? Or maybe she had, and had just chosen to ignore it, like she'd ignored so many inconvieniet things in her not very long life.]
[And then, Allen had chosen to sacrifice himself in her place.]
[...But why had he done that, anyway? Rin's whole body shook, as she realized that Allen probably hadn't have to really sacrifice himself at all. Why hadn't he tried to just take her with him and run away? They could have run away to some far away country, or even faked their deaths and madee some new identities for themselves if Allen didn't want to do that... Allen'd had the skills, resources and connections to do that kind of thing, after all.]
Re: The continuation of Path 3
...Stop grabbin' me when I'm like this, you damn idiot...
[She growled, pulling his hand off hers almost effortlessly.]
- I would have knocked you into the walls or worse if you were anybody else, you damned dummy!
[And then, she rubbed at her eyes, willing the tears to go away. Rillanne d'Aurich wouldn't have cried, just because some girl she'd known had - gone Witch, and then gone away...]
[But then - She wasn't really the Princess of Evil anymore, was she now?]
[Len, in the meanwhile, was almost seething.]
- You - You - What the hell are you, anyway? Are you even my sister at all!?!?
[Rin stared at him, then - And then, a memory rose to the top of her mind, unbidden.]
[A young Allen when they were young members of the Royalty together. And then, a older Allen, when he'd first been introduced to her as her Royal Servant. And a long time after that - ]
[Allen was on one knee in front of her, telling her that he'd gotten rid of the Green Kingdom's Princess Michelle, and that everything would be all right now...]
[- Except that that had been a big fat lie. Things had gone from bad to worse after that, and she'd lost everything, even Allen.]
[...Allen's eyes had been sort of dead after he'd killed the Green Princess, Rin realized now. Why hadn't Rillanne realized that? Or maybe she had, and had just chosen to ignore it, like she'd ignored so many inconvieniet things in her not very long life.]
[And then, Allen had chosen to sacrifice himself in her place.]
[...But why had he done that, anyway? Rin's whole body shook, as she realized that Allen probably hadn't have to really sacrifice himself at all. Why hadn't he tried to just take her with him and run away? They could have run away to some far away country, or even faked their deaths and madee some new identities for themselves if Allen didn't want to do that... Allen'd had the skills, resources and connections to do that kind of thing, after all.]
[So why hadn't he?]